"Yes! You're the one who killed her!"

Zhu Qian's figure flashed past Zhu Xingye's eyes, replaced by Zhu Mingyue with a ferocious smile.

"Big brother, my dear big brother, you've killed the little sister you raised!"

"...I didn't!" Zhu Xingye retreated in a disheveled manner, trying to get away from the terrifying-looking Zhu Mingyue.

"Chaochao is not dead! I didn't kill her! I didn't!"

"You have it!" The three of them blocked Zhu Xingye's path, staring at him intently with wide eyes.

Zhu Ning: "You're the one who killed Zhu Jinzhao! You locked her in a dark room and starved her for four whole days! She was starved to death by you!"

Zhu Qian: "You never believed her, no matter how she explained, you always thought she was bad! You not only insulted her with the most vicious words, but you also slapped her and kicked her knees at the drop of a hat! You drove her to her death!"

Zhu Mingyue: You knew perfectly well that she had been sent to a special correctional school, yet you completely ignored her, allowing the perverted teachers there to torment her! She was starving and couldn't sleep properly, and she was beaten every day, constantly on guard against those teachers abusing her!

"You knew she was having a hard time inside, yet you didn't even glance at her! She was tortured to death by your indifference and indulgence!"

"You are the culprit who killed her!"

"I didn't!" Zhu Xingye screamed helplessly, "I didn't kill her! I didn't!"

"What do you mean by a dark room or a special correctional school? What are you talking about? I never did any of these things, and I will never allow anyone to do them to her!"

"She won't die, she won't!!!"

"Hahahahahaha!!!" The three people in front of them burst into laughter at the same time.

They laughed arrogantly and mockingly, mocking Zhu Xingye's hypocrisy and incompetence, as well as his confusion and helplessness.

Zhu Xingye is being driven crazy by them.

"Stop laughing!! Stop laughing!!"

Instead of listening, they laughed even louder.

"Hahahahahaha!!"

Hahahahahaha!!!

A near-maniacal laugh, mixed with the ear-piercing sound of lightning and thunder, slammed heavily onto Zhu Xingye, completely shattering his reason.

"Get away!! All of you get away!!"

He frantically waved his hands, trying to drive away the three people blocking his way.

The three seemed to have laughed enough, and as soon as Zhu Xingye started to shoo people away, they took the initiative to step aside and make room for him.

"Aaaaaah!!!"

Suddenly, he heard a heart-wrenching cry coming from ahead.

He looked up at the sound and saw Shi Jing kneeling in the rain, holding Zhu Jinzhao's body in her arms.

"Chao Chao, my Chao Chao!!"

"What did she do wrong? Why are you treating her like this?!"

"I'll kill you all! I'm going to kill you all!!"

"Time Mirror!"

Shi Fei stood aside, wanting to go forward and offer some advice, but ultimately couldn't bring himself to do it.

“Zhao Chao…” Jiang Jingwen knelt on the ground, her frail figure shivering in the pouring rain. She wanted to go forward and hug the dead Zhu Jinchao, but she had known Zhu Jinchao for over ten years, and they had embraced each other countless times during that time. But Shi Jing was different.

Shi Jing and she had only been together for a few months. The young couple, deeply in love, should have been inseparable, but they were forcibly separated because of the obstruction and framing of these people. Now that Zhu Jinzhao was dead, she would generously let Shi Jing hold her still-warm body.

Shi Jing must have been in extreme pain; apart from helpless howls, he could no longer utter any sound.

Shi Fei frowned as he looked at him, then suddenly said softly, "If I had known it would turn out like this, I wouldn't have stopped him in the first place."

A vibrant life was cut short before his eyes, and his only beloved son was driven to the brink of madness. For the first time in his life, he tasted the bitterness of regret.

"If I hadn't been so cruel as to break them up back then, none of this would have happened today."

“It’s too late…” Jiang Jingwen said these two words expressionlessly.

Shi Fei clenched his fists, his lips pressed tightly together, unable to utter another word.

Zhu Xingye, standing behind him, stared blankly at everything, seemingly dumbfounded and unsure how to react.

The words "Zhu Jinzhao is dead" kept echoing in his ears. After Zhu Ning finished speaking, Zhu Qian spoke, and after Zhu Qian spoke, Zhu Mingyue continued. Finally, Zhu Mingyue stopped speaking, but Shi Fei and Jiang Jingwen started again.

These words seemed to be under a spell, clinging to him like a persistent ghost. At first, he didn't believe Zhu Jinzhao was dead, but after being hypnotized by these people for so long, he had no choice but to believe it, no matter how unwilling he was.

“Zhao Zhao…” He staggered forward, wanting to walk to Zhu Jinzhao’s side to see her, but before he had taken two steps, another Zhu Xingye suddenly jumped out from beside him.

"Did you see that?" He reached out to stop Zhu Xingye from going any further. "You really killed Zhu Jinzhao, and he died with his eyes wide open in anger..."

"To die with eyes wide open..." This phrase was so insidious that Zhu Xingye trembled uncontrollably upon hearing it.

He tilted his head slightly to look at Zhu Xingye, his smile a mixture of regret and smugness: "Yes, he died with his eyes wide open..."

Zhu Xingye looked up at him and subconsciously looked at Zhu Jinzhao's eyes. He saw that Zhu Jinzhao's eyes were indeed wide open. No matter how Shi Jing tried to close her eyelids, she refused to close them.

He truly died with his eyes wide open in disbelief!

"...No!!!" Zhu Xingye screamed in terror!

"President Zhu?"

A gentle male voice suddenly entered Zhu Xingye's ears.

Zhu Xingye opened his eyes in a panic and saw a man in a white coat sitting by his bedside.

"Mr. Zhu, you're awake." The man smiled gently at him.

He strained to open his eyes, the fear and panic in them still lingering.

The man took two clean tissues out of the pocket of his white coat and handed them to Zhu Xingye: "Mr. Zhu, you had a nightmare."

"...A nightmare?" Zhu Xingye's brows furrowed slightly, his voice still a little breathless. "Did I...did I have a nightmare?"

The man looked at the beads of sweat on his forehead and nodded: "If nothing unexpected happens, it should be."

"..." Zhu Xingye's expression showed a moment of confusion.

The man looked at his face and, seeing that he was not fully awake, got up from the bedside and walked to the side, pulling open all the tightly closed curtains.

"Whoosh—"

In an instant, the dim room was illuminated by the sunlight.

Zhu Xingye subconsciously closed his eyes, and only slowly opened them after his eyes had adjusted to the light.

The lightning and thunder have disappeared, the torrential rain and strong winds have vanished, and the sun shines warmly outside the window, with a gentle breeze blowing; just looking at it makes you feel warm.

It seems he really was dreaming.

The dream was so vivid that he couldn't distinguish between reality and illusion.